What is the difference between definitions and the stars?
The stars are God’s definitions, the laws according to which the material world exists, while our definitions are definitions created from the interpretation of our experiences, with which we identify.
The laws are also definitions, yet the difference is enormous. The laws that determine the existence of the material world are timeless, unchangeable, and according to the order of their creation, they determine the way every further law appears.
The order in which the laws are defined creates the network of relationships, which concretely determines the way the laws appear in the material world.
All of this is knowable for Human, but because Human’s perception is not unlimited, the laws cannot be known in the form in which God created them. Human’s perception is limited in both space and time, therefore the material world appears to Human as a process in which Human perceives the forms in which the laws appear, rather than the laws themselves.
Human recognizes regularities based on experiences and creates definitions based on the recognized regularities. Our definitions created in this way are not identical to the definitions created by God, but based on further experiences we can make our definitions increasingly precise, until, after sufficient experience, we can also create the true definitions created by God.
The recognized laws make it possible for us to recognize further laws connected to them in our subsequent experiences, which are initially imprecise again, but through further experiences we can define them with increasing precision.
The process of knowing in time is therefore extremely limited compared to the way the laws actually exist. During the six cycles of creation, God defined every law according to which the material world appeared, in its entirety.
During our lives, we can know only a small slice in time and space of the material world, which is infinite in both time and space, but according to the text of the Bible, the world exists in its entirety.
The stars therefore represent God’s laws, which are visible in the night sky, but the network of relationships between them is not visible, nor is the difference between them visible. It can be recognized by us that everything that appears in the world appears according to laws, but what these laws are and what relationship they have with one another cannot be known in its entirety within a human lifetime.
The recognitions of the conscious I, the definitions with which the conscious I identifies, “cover” the stars during the day, because we perceive and interpret the appearing world according to our own definitions. Our definitions also determine our perception; of the laws that appear, we are capable of perceiving only what is connected in some way to our current knowledge.
If we can read, books can be extremely good sources of information for us, but if we cannot, then every book is equally useless to us. If we can read, but we also have books written in a language unknown to us, then there will also be one group of books that is connected to our current knowledge and another group that is useless to us.
In addition, our own knowledge is not necessarily precise. If we identify with knowledge that does not describe reality precisely, then our experiences develop differently from what we expect according to our knowledge, and emotions also appear in our experiences so that the knowledge we have accepted can appear in reality.
The world exists according to the laws determined by God, but in the world we experience, which is a process in time, our own definitions also appear.
The world exists in complete harmony, therefore our imprecise definitions are able to appear in our experiences in such a way that their appearance is limited by emotions. The more imprecise the definitions we have identified with, the stronger the emotions that appear together with them in our experiences, and thus we are present in the world according to our unconscious I, which can be defined as our emotions, so that the harmony of the world is not harmed.
The world therefore exists in its entirety, and our existence also appears in the material world according to the definitions with which we identify. We ourselves are the appearance of our definitions, our life in the material world, which in reality is a very tiny unit in both space and time compared to the size of the world. Yet our appearance cannot disrupt the harmony of the world for even a single moment; only those definitions can appear that the unconscious I is able to bring into harmony with the laws of the world through emotions.
Thanks to harmony, we are able to make our definitions of the world more precise, and in recurring experiences we always experience events that help us make our definitions more precise, enabling development.
The stars are therefore the true laws that we desire to know, but we perceive the world according to the laws created by ourselves and accepted as truth, the existence of which is made possible by our emotions.
The way of knowing the world is thus Human life itself, in which the more strongly we cling to our own interpretations, the stronger the emotions that accompany them, and eventually even the emotions are no longer able to keep alive what we represent.
The interpretations we represent appear as will in our lives, while the world continues to exist according to the laws determined by God, which we only experience and do not change.
Our appearing experiences are determined and serve to change our definitions of the world, that is, ourselves, so that we can increasingly understand the appearing reality.
The stars and our definitions therefore differ fundamentally. This difference is to the extent to which we strive to bring about our will against the appearing reality.
The less we want to change the world, the more capable we are of changing our own definitions according to the appearing reality.
As long as there is a difference between the appearing reality and the definitions we represent, emotions regulate our existence in the material world to the extent of the difference, because among God’s laws our definitions can appear only in this way. In practice, this means that only the compelling force of our emotions can keep alive the definitions with which we have identified, which are ourselves.